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A comparative analysis of the role of the state in Chinese, Japanese, and Korean investment in the EU 国家在中国、日本和韩国对欧盟投资中的作用比较分析

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2021-05-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-021-00610-w

Bas Hooijmaaijers

引用次数: 1

First mover advantage: the United Kingdom and the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank 先发优势:英国和亚洲基础设施投资银行

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2021-05-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-021-00595-6

Edward Ashbee

引用次数: 0

The Belt-and-Road Initiative as a paradigm change for European Union-China security cooperation? The case of Central Asia “一带一路”倡议是中欧安全合作的典范变革?以中亚为例

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2021-04-27 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-021-00606-6

Benjamin Barton

引用次数: 2

Focusing on political and civil concerns in news media? European refugee issue seen from China 关注新闻媒体中的政治和公民问题?从中国看欧洲难民问题

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Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2021-04-26 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-021-00608-4

Shujun Jiang, Li Zhang, Leen d’Haenens

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引用次数: 5

Mapping perception of China in Central and Eastern Europe 中欧和东欧对中国的认知地图

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2021-04-23 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-021-00607-5

Lai Suetyi, Cai Yidong

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引用次数: 4

The EU and China: policy perceptions of economic cooperation and competition 欧盟与中国：对经济合作与竞争的政策认知

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2021-04-21 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-021-00609-3

Duncan Freeman

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引用次数: 5

Congruence-building on multiple fronts: Indian elite perceptions of EU rule promotion in India during the EU-India FTA negotiations (2007–2013) 在多个方面建立一致性:欧盟-印度自由贸易协定谈判期间印度精英对欧盟规则在印度推广的看法(2007-2013)

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2021-04-07 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-020-00591-2

Marie Sophie Peffenköver

{"title":"Congruence-building on multiple fronts: Indian elite perceptions of EU rule promotion in India during the EU-India FTA negotiations (2007–2013)","authors":"Marie Sophie Peffenköver","doi":"10.1007/s10308-020-00591-2","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10308-020-00591-2","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>How does the European Union export its rules and regulations to its partners during free trade negotiations? While the research fields on EU foreign policy promotion abroad and external perceptions seem to have settled on the notion that the success of EU rule export increases with the internalization of the negotiation partner’s wants, this article challenges this academic consensus. Scrutinizing the EU-India free trade negotiations (2007–2013) where the perception of EU norms turned from positive to inherently negative, the article shows that the Commission successfully constructed the notion of congruence between European and Indian standards on multiple (international, bilateral, regional) fronts during an initial “honeymoon phase” (2007–2011). Yet, once the negotiations’ focus shifted to hard bargaining over core interests, the notion of congruence gave way to tensions and discrepancies, so that perceptions turned negative over the “cooldown” (2011–2013). Analysing claims made by EU and Indian policy officials in four Indian English-speaking quality newspapers—<i>Times of India</i>, <i>Hindustan Times</i>, <i>Hindu Business Line</i> and the <i>Business Standard</i>—the article suggests that the discursive construction of congruence with the local context, however successful, cannot prevail against battles over core interests. Hence, this article provides starting points for new academic junctures in that it introduces a more nuanced understanding of the EU’s approach to rule promotion abroad.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45680,"journal":{"name":"Asia Europe Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-04-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10308-020-00591-2","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50022445","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 0

South Korea’s hydrogen economy program as a case of weak ecological modernization 韩国氢经济项目作为弱生态现代化的一个案例

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-18 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-021-00594-7

Ralf Havertz

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引用次数: 9

ASEAN and the EU amidst COVID-19: overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy of realism 新冠肺炎背景下的东盟和欧盟:克服自我实现的现实主义预言

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-13 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-021-00604-8

Frederick Kliem

{"title":"ASEAN and the EU amidst COVID-19: overcoming the self-fulfilling prophecy of realism","authors":"Frederick Kliem","doi":"10.1007/s10308-021-00604-8","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s10308-021-00604-8","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is one of the greatest challenges of our lifetime. Quite appropriately, the pandemic has been declared a non-traditional security (NTS) threat in many countries in Europe and Asia. Beyond its detrimental effect on public health, COVID-19 is testing the international resolve to cooperate and represents a particularly tricky challenge to regionalism. Due to the nature of pandemics, regional pandemic management is imperative. However, the two most successful regional organisations, the European Union (EU) and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), have not been able to match the resolve of their individual member states, and there is a substantial gap between timely and robust national pandemic management and inadequacy at the regional level. This is a paradox that merits further investigation. To what extent and why diverged early national and early regional responses to COVID-19? This article identifies a causal relationship between robust national pandemic management as a result of early securitisation and ensuing paralysis on regional level, a process which I call the ‘selffulfilling prophecy of realism’—a vicious cycle of national self-help responses paralysing regional cooperation. This article contributes early to the impact of COVID-19 on regionalism by analysing EU and ASEAN pandemic management efforts, investigating what has hindered or facilitated successful regional cooperation and identifying room for meaningful interregionalism.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":45680,"journal":{"name":"Asia Europe Journal","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.6,"publicationDate":"2021-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/s10308-021-00604-8","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"25512228","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

引用次数: 11

European students’ learning adaptation to socio-cultural interactions in Taiwan 欧洲学生对台湾社会文化互动的学习适应

IF 1.6 3区社会学

Asia Europe Journal Pub Date : 2021-03-08 DOI: 10.1007/s10308-021-00600-y

Jane Lu Hsu, Shu-Yun Chen, Roberta Facchinetti

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引用次数: 2